cannot send mail in command prompt

[Rick Stevens]

Toto Gamez wrote:
> lists,
> I have redhat 9 installed in our remote office connected to the internet 
> via dsl with dynamic ip address. My problem is I created a mini script 
> (ifconfig ppp0|mail -s ipadd egamez at bonheur.com.ph 
> <mailto:egamez at bonheur.com.ph>) that will email the ip address every 2 
> hour to me so that I can access the server but emails are not send to 
> me. When I checked the logs it says
> Naga sendmail[12014]: i9Q1HtJ5012014: to=egamez at bonheur.com.ph 
> <mailto:to=egamez at bonheur.com.ph>, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, 
> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30041, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], 
> dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
> any suggestion

You must have sendmail running on your RH9 box for it to work.  Try
"service sendmail start" to start it.  Don't worry, the default
configuration will not accept mail from the outside--only from itself.

Use "chkconfig --level 2345 sendmail on" to set it so it starts
automatically on boot.
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